Mammalia

Myriad Reality

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*Stares out the windows*

@DarkwolfX37

*The Gyroball slows to a stop and a bunch of people file out and file in* See how quick that was? Less than a minute to travel an eighth of the mountain! Sometimes it feels like the longest part is getting people in and out. Two more sectors. *The Gyroball starts going again, stopping at another sector, and then it goes and comes to a stop; our seatbelts beep and let us out* Sector 3-e-zeta. Hospes' Bakery, here we come! *Steps out of the Gyroball out of the station and comes out to another busy street surrounded by shops*

Myriad Reality

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*Bows slightly and sits next to you*

@DarkwolfX37

*After Aron gets in and sits behind us, the doors close; the chairs beep and strap us in; there is a short pause with faint commotion sounding through the platforms and then the Gyroball takes off, accelerating smoothly until the city is zooming around us as we go around the mountain and the landscape changes with a lower speed*

Myriad Reality

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Me either.

@DarkwolfX37

*Another Gyroball arrives and we are allowed in; I bow my head and motion for you and Aron to do so and then I enter; inside is a translucent red platform with a carpet hall between rows of seats in pairs of two; I sit on one and gesture for you to sit next to me*

Myriad Reality

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A gyration?

@DarkwolfX37

It doesn't gyrate. Maybe they should call the tube the Gyration, the ball the Gyro, and the station the Gyroscope? I dunno.

Myriad Reality

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Then what should the gyroscope be called?

@DarkwolfX37

Maybe just a gyro station?

Myriad Reality

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*Follows*

@DarkwolfX37

*Gets in a short line to one of the sliding doors; a large clear ball filled with seats and platforms slows to a stop in front of the platform and locks in* See, these are what should be called Gyroscopes. But no, they're called Gyroballs. *People file out of a set of doors on the right and several people in front of us are let in; once they sit down the Gyroball takes off*

Myriad Reality

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*Follows closely*

@DarkwolfX37

*We come to a big concrete platform in front of an even bigger tube of blue-tinted glass; several levels of smaller platforms stack up against it with elevators and stairs running between them; people stand in lines on all the platforms to enter doors on the tube* Welcome to a Gyroscope! Terrible name, I know. Don't tell anyone I said that. *Goes down a flight of stairs to a lower entrance platform and goes down a couple more to get to the bottom*

Myriad Reality

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yes

Myriad Reality

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Not at all.

@DarkwolfX37

I know I haven't said much about the culture here yet, but if you want to invent a shop you can.

Myriad Reality

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*Follows quickly, jumping down the last four stairs*

@DarkwolfX37

I think this place is all shops. If you see any shops you like, let me know. *Walks carefully across the sidewalk, waving you guys behind me and looking back to make sure you're following*